The energy savings and internet

It seems our brand assets Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Miguel Sebastian, at least more active than when he knew in Madrid as a candidate for Mayor Miguel Sevaahostiar (pardon me), while a few days ago presented an interesting savings plan energy. This plan will be developed between 2008 and 2011 envisages an investment of 245 million euros to be used to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and promoting energy saving in particular in transport.

It is interesting to think how this will affect energy crisis in the future of the Internet. A computer consumes little power even while turned off, and the average energy consumption per team is what it spends a small lamp (about 200w), so you might say that the expenses incurred by the use of a computer are minimal compared to other applications we use in daily life. Although as a curiosity to know that the MAC should spend more.

The companies engaged in the hardware increasingly computers that take into account the energy savings, manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard dropped some time ago a system that allows your computer to save the equivalent of what we consume 75 watts an alcohol burner on for an entire year. Dell launched a line of Smart Energy reduces between 30 and 50% of the consumer's PC desktop and Web servers. Companies like Intel joined the Chicago Climate Exchange and committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 6 per cent at least for 2010.

In June 2007 launched the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an initiative that brings together Dell, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, God, HP, Intel Corporation, Lenovo and Microsoft. These giants have committed to reducing to 50% of energy consumption of computers. In numbers this would be reduced to 54 million tons of oil annually, which would mean a savings of $ 5.5 billion dollars in energy cost (and us while in Spain, planning to give away a bombillita low per user in 2009 and 2010: -- D)

Beyond the commitment that may have most of the companies that produce hardware or software, companies generally use a large quantity of computer equipment needed to refrigerate complex work stations and this entails a high degree of energy consumption. That is, not only is it important to get off the consumption of computer systems but also is extremely important that the air conditioners designed to cool the energy-saving equipment or develop computers that require less cooling.

Today there are already on the market laptops that consume less and less, as the model launched last year by OX. Mobile phones have improved their batteries, have an average load of 3 hours could last for days, depending on the use makes the team. Nokia has a line of batteries with alarms to encourage users to unplug chargers once they are loaded. There are initiatives from companies such as Orange to recharge the batteries bodily movement of mobile phones, or the example of Apple to soon launch an iPod to the market and possibly Iphone that is recharged with a small solar panel.

These initiatives are fine, but the final compromise rests always on consumers. We who realize that there is little energy on the planet, and in countries such as Spain, the socio-political weakness of relying energy dramatically from abroad. So, avoid triumphal tours of pseudo-rate dictators Hugo Chavez that was made over a wash of images in our country "offering" cheap oil for 100 years.

How can we put our grain of sand? There are some things we can make in our everyday life:

- Avoid the standby mode: The aircraft in Standby are not turned off and consume 15% more.

- Safe use of equipment: Use suspended or hibernation mode on your laptop, do not leave for hours without power lines.

- Batteries: we have to use them correctly and optimize its charge to help in energy savings. Recalls the importance of loading-unloading cycle of initial charging trying to leave a couple of hours after completing the loading and unloading is encouraging that fast.

- Unplug chargers: When you do not use the phone, do not leave the charger plugged. When this loaded your cellphone, camera, pda etc: disconnect.

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